The US Government Accountability Office has announced that the F-35 fighter program is twelve years behind schedule.

The Pentagon has faced serious problems in implementing the program to purchase new and maintain the technical condition of fifth-generation F-35 fighters already in service, produced by the defense concern Lockheed Martin. After an audit, the US Accounting Chamber announced that in general this program is being implemented twelve years behind schedule, reports the international publication Defense News.

The US Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps currently operate more than 450 F-35 aircraft. In total, the US Department of Defense plans to purchase about two and a half thousand of these fighters, for which it plans to spend $1,7 trillion. Moreover, most of the funds, about 1,3 trillion, will be spent on the technical and operational maintenance of the aircraft fleet.

Experts from the Accounting Chamber, having checked the condition of the fighters already at the disposal of the US Army, came to the conclusion that many of the F-35s are not ready for combat use in a real war. In March 2023, all F-35s had a combat capability level of 55 percent, well below the 70 percent target set for the F-35A and the 75 percent target for the F-35B and F-35C.

The main problem arose with frequent failures of aircraft parts, their number increased from 4300 to more than 10000. The repair period has also increased significantly, which according to standards should be no more than 60 days, but in fact it takes an average of 141 days. To somehow solve this problem, the F-35 program office purchases new parts at a higher price, without waiting for the damaged parts to return from repair.

All this led to increased costs for the entire program and a shortage of funds within the approved costs to pay for the acquisition of new fighters. In addition, as Lockheed Martin management announced in July, in 2023 the corporation will not have time to deliver approximately 50 fifth-generation F-35 fighters of all modifications to customers on time.

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[bk0010]

The main problem arose with frequent failures of aircraft parts, their number increased from 4300 to more than 1000.

More carefully, please.

[mr wolf]

Yeah... In the old days, any publication, even a multi-volume one, was proofread by proofreaders. If there was a typo, an insert was made with the correction... And now even an article of insignificant length is not controlled by the author himself... Neither the author, nor the editor... In fact, no one at all.

[A2AD]

But the Chukchi is not a reader, the Chukchi is a writer, or rather a copy-pastor. There is no time to proofread, you have to cut money for the quantity of text, not its quality.

[Terenin]

The US Government Accountability Office has announced that the F-35 fighter program is twelve years behind schedule.

If you're late, there's no point in rushing

[fa2998]

Quote: Terenin

The US Government Accountability Office has announced that the F-35 fighter program is twelve years behind schedule.

If you're late, there's no point in rushing

Are these late? In ten years, more than 1000 vehicles have been screwed up. Ours are “storming” the second dozen Su-57s, although the programs started almost simultaneously. We report that everything is fine, but they cry - they lag behind

[antivirus]

Penguins and mermaids are not a single choir. Will penguins fall in love with crocodiles?
There is money, you don’t need intelligence... and eat. The more expensive, the happier the bosses. It will scan both 55 and 70% of readiness. Before the big war. There will be no TRMV. Surely it won’t, forum members?

[Asad]

The development of the F35 began in 2001, about a thousand were produced. The development of the SU 57 began in 1999, about 20 were produced. Even if half of the penguins do not fly, and all of ours, then the score is not in our favor. Well, we don’t know how much an hour of our plane costs.

[svp67]

I wonder how many years behind our Su-57 program is? And is there any progress on the Su-75?

[Thrifty]

svp67 - if you believe the promises that he will enter the army in 2013, then the lag is definitely years behind.

[Fangaro]

Pointless news. We can’t check the data of their accounting chamber.
Most likely it’s not about 12 years behind schedule. I think they shifted the order execution schedule to the right by 20-25 years.
This is not ours. There is no corruption in the USA, but there is lobbying. There you can decide on any postponements of implementation dates. And there is neither GVSU nor SK.
Their voters, with some congressmen and senators (there are honest politicians in the states as well), were unable to even deal with the Kennedy assassination.
With a modern accounting chamber, they will no longer be able to. But we have little information.

[A2AD]

Most likely it’s not about 12 years behind schedule.

This is rather based on what is currently available, but the money has already been spent 12 years in advance. Well, or vice versa. The money has already been spent now, but they have only done what should have been done 12 years ago.

[SovAr238A]

Quote from A2AD

Most likely it’s not about 12 years behind schedule.

This is rather based on what is currently available, but the money has already been spent 12 years in advance. Well, or vice versa. The money has already been spent now, but they have only done what should have been done 12 years ago.

Not spent.
1.5 trillion is the cost of the entire life cycle of the program for the first 20 years.
Moreover, for the construction of aircraft itself, as many have seen, it is 200 billion.
Everything else is spare parts and engines and airfield equipment and all this for 20 years in advance.

[bk0010]

Quote from Fangaro

I think they shifted the order execution schedule to the right by 20-25 years.
This is not ours.

And it’s not critical for them. They already have the most numerous and new aviation. But here we have... see SVO. Now we would really like a Su-57 in commercial quantities.

[Bingo]

What is this 12 years old? I remember you promised a price for them below 60 million per piece as soon as they began to mass produce, even now, even according to American sources who have gone astray, a fighter costs 160 million per trough, and you write them off in case of an accident for 250 million)))

[Boa kaa]

Quote from Bingo

they promised a price below 60 million per piece as soon as they began mass production

Promising does not mean getting married! (With)
The whole thrill for operators is in the cost of 1 flight hour: 42 thousand dollars!!! And besides, the software needs to be changed/updated/corrected almost every month! No software - the computer doesn't want to fly!
But that's not all! Supersonic sound is contraindicated for the Penguin: the radio-absorbing coating slips. And you can paint it only in strictly controlled parameters of temperature, pressure, humidity... in a special box...
And so - an airplane = a flying computer! Even helmets pour on the skull of a particular flyer... Well, they will “harm him” or accidentally damage him - and that’s it, there will be no flights! And there is no need to shoot down the plane...it definitely won’t take off into the air without a flyer (yet).
AHA.

[Bingo]

Quote: Boa constrictor KAA

The whole thrill for operators is in the cost of 1 flight hour: 42 thousand dollars!!!

Yes, there was no horse lying there yet!

The scandal with the reduced Pratt-Whitney engines (these are the ones on the A320neo, A220 and E2-1XX) is spreading - no, not in the sense that air carriers are unhappy that the blades are falling apart. It turned out that the “brothers” use the same technology in the F135 engines on the “Little Dristun” F-35.

Oh, so that’s why half of the F-35s are standing without engines... It’s not that we “don’t have time to produce them,” but they fall apart faster than they have time to assemble them!!!

[bone1]

Just for 12 years?? - just think, what little things

[Vicontas]

Everything is clear! China then banned the export of rare earths to the United States, from which they rivet electronics for the 35th efka! And one flying kerosene gas requires as much as 430 kilograms! China’s powerful response to the Americans’ ban on transferring technology to the Chinese!

[tralflot1832]

And the money has already been spent 12 years in advance? And then the senators have gold bars. And if all the congressmen and senators are shaken, maybe the US national debt is not so big?

[mr wolf]

Quote from Fangaro

This is not ours. There is no corruption in the USA, but there is lobbying. There you can decide on any postponements of implementation dates.

Heh... Funny reasoning. I just want to ask: - was it possible?
Legalize corruption and give it a name - lobbying...

[A2AD]

What kind of attol is in the photo? Does anyone have any advice?

[TermNachTer]

The photo may be purely illustrative and not in any way related to reality.

[A2AD]

Most likely not related to the article. Moreover, there is a raptor in the picture. But the photo itself is most likely real. I wonder where it was filmed.

[Rom8681]

Quote: svp67

I wonder how many years behind our Su-57 program is? And is there any progress on the Su-75?

So we already aimed at the sixth, and at su 57 they will say we were working on the latest technologies, it was intended to be experimental

[Tim666]

It is necessary to approve the schedule for the 10th as soon as possible, plan for 2123 and allocate funds.

[TermNachTer]

What was required to be proven is quite expected. In twenty years they will report that the program failed)))

[Aaron Zawi]

Quote: TermNachTER

What was required to be proven is quite expected. In twenty years they will report that the program failed)))

Definitely

[nordscout]

Analyzing the above (the article), one gets the opinion that the main adversary has the same problems in the military-industrial complex as in the Russian one... “Rule” is “effective”, full-fledged managers who are ready, with great zeal, to “cut” budget without forgetting “your beloved self”.... And the schemes here and there are classic: inflating the cost of production, reducing the manufacturability of the production process, using conditionally-standard raw materials and semi-finished products and low-skilled personnel, “stretching out” the design process for years and receiving a sample in “bronze and marble”... Life is getting more expensive, there are a lot of everyday temptations, which makes everyone think about how to earn money and, if possible, a lot. This is the “ideological trend” of any capitalist society, into which Russia, too, has been diligently “fitting in” for the last 30 years... Although, at the current stage, they are trying to give it, Russian capitalism, a “Gagarin smile”... It turns out frankly bad, something from the same series as about the F-35 from the above article.... Although...

[father]

In other words, you are doing great, since Russia is behind schedule!

[Sedov]

From 2017. Discussion of the F35 supply program budget (A, B and C). Photo from the briefing.

The screensaver is a screenshot from the Air Force briefing.

Major General James Martin suddenly became ill, and he lost consciousness during a press conference on the Pentagon’s budget project for 2017. We wish Mr. Martin good health and all kinds of well-being. But we state that fainting happened after he was asked a question about the financing of the F-35 program ...

[digger]

and about. Minister of Defense in 2019 could not stand a briefing and said live that the F-35 program was a complete failure .. and the F-35 itself is not an airplane but a piece of crap

[Tim666]

Quote: Vicontas

Everything is clear! China then banned the export of rare earths to the United States, from which they rivet electronics for the 35th efka! And one flying kerosene gas requires as much as 430 kilograms! China’s powerful response to the Americans’ ban on transferring technology to the Chinese!

Can you tell me what rare earth metals might be needed 430 kg for an aircraft with a dry weight of 13-15 tons?

[voyaka uh]

And now, about the main thing - about combat effectiveness:
1) The F-35 is much less radio-visible to air defense radars,
than the Storm Shadow missiles that hit the headquarters in Sevastopol.
2) the power of bombs/missiles of one F-35 is several times
higher than Storm Shadow with the same accuracy.
3) The F-35 is capable of first attacking air defense itself, and then
the object that was protected by this air defense was in one sortie.

[Repellent]

Warrior yuh, your girlish dreams are already known by heart. Don't tire